X Factor Wagner's keeps stardom in his sights

The curtain may have come down on his time in the spotlight on one of the nation's favourite TV shows, but the party is nowhere near over for Black Country's own X Factor star Wagner.

With movie deals, TV shows and regular gigs taking him all over the country, the bongo-playing cult star has a full diary as he rides out the success the show has brought him.

And this week the Brazil-born singer began a regular slot at Wolverhampton-based Beacon FM radio station.

"The most I thought I ever would be is a singing tramp, and look what has happened to me," he said.

"Everything is going very well," he added.

The Express & Star caught up with him as he visited ward 15 at Birmingham Children's Hospital.

He visited the hospital as a favour to one of his biggest fans, eight-year-old Joseph Timmins, who has undergone three years of intense chemotherapy at Birmingham Children's Hospital and is now in remission.

Wagner first met the brave Cradley schoolboy outside the stage door of Birmingham's LG Arena on the X Factor tour, and was moved by the story of how the brave youngster has battled leukaemia since the age of three.

He paid him a surprise visit in a school assembly at Cradley C of E Primary, in Church Road, last month – which, according to his mother Amy, was the highlight of the youngster's year.